Leather Brogues Are Supposed To Stretch With Wear, Mine Took Their Time
Refreshed the listing at 11:47pm on a Tuesday because that’s supposedly the dead zone, the hour right before someone in the UK wakes up and starts hunting the same size…
Sleeping In A Corset Split My Group Chat Down The Middle, Nobody Agreed
My group chat has forty three messages in it from a single Tuesday night, all sparked by one photo. A friend posted herself in bed wearing a lace up underbust…
My Personal Trainer Had Opinions About My Corset, I Wasnt Expecting That Conversation
“You know that’s not actually doing anything, right?” That’s what my trainer said, mid squat rack, while I was adjusting my underbust corset between sets like it was a normal…
A Leather Skirt At Work Comes Down To The Fabric More Than The Cut
My sister asked me if a leather skirt was “too much” for a client presentation, and I asked her the only question that actually matters: is it the kind of…
The Corset Organs Rumour Followed Me Into A Fitting Room And I Finally Looked It Up
I was standing in a fitting room in a shop that will remain nameless, half in and half out of a underbust corset I’d bought for a dress that needed…
Whether Viking Women Wore Corsets Turned Into A Proper Rabbit Hole
My coworker who does the Renaissance Faire circuit every October and my sister in law, who once made me watch three hours of a Viking reenactment documentary on a flight…
Medieval Women And Corsets Get Mixed Up With A Completely Different Century
I’m standing in the checkout aisle of a costume shop in October, and the woman behind me is holding two things: a “medieval princess” dress with a laced-up, boned bodice…
Bomber Jackets Keep Coming Back Into Fashion And I Wanted To Know When They First Took Off
So were bomber jackets ever actually popular, or is this one of those things where everyone just assumes something’s a classic because it’s been sitting in every closet since forever?…
Tracking Down Who Invented The Bomber Jacket Turned Into A Proper Rabbit Hole
Okay so picture this. Group chat, Tuesday night, someone posts a screenshot of a runway bomber jacket with the caption “the ORIGINAL,” some vintage looking khaki thing with a fur…
Leather Jackets Had Their Moment In The 90s And Apparently Never Really Left
My brother Sam paid ninety bucks for a “genuine leather” jacket at a mall store in 2019 because he wanted the Matrix look for a costume party, wore it exactly…